Smith (Dodie) I Capture the Castle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the …

Smith (Dodie) I Capture the Castle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author ""To Jon [Wynne-Tyson], with my love, Dodie. Doylestown. Pennsylvania. November 1948" to endpaper, with change of address card marking Dodie and her husband Alec's move from Pennsylvania to California with signed autograph note from Smith to verso, illustrations by Ruth Smeed from sketches by the author, newspaper cuttings loosely inserted at rear, original cloth, light spotting and fading to spine and cover margins, small patch of damp-staining to foot, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, lower panel with tape repairs to head and horizontal patch of browning, light creasing to spine ends, very light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, Boston, 1948. ⁂ The author's acclaimed first novel, inscribed to the son of a close friend, Esmé Wynne-Tyson. Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924-2020), author, publisher and founder of the Centaur Press.